Mymuna Soleman

Mymuna is Somali-Welsh graduate from Cardiff Metropolitan University completing both her

degrees, a BSc in Health and Social Care and an MSc in Applied Public Health in 2014 and 2016.

Mymuna is an activist, a poet and community champion for all issues relating to equality, diversity, race and white privilege and how people can use their privilege for good.

More recently Mymuna founded the Privilege cafe, an important and timely virtual space founded and grounded on the back of creating a safe space where voices that have been marginalised and othered for so long were now welcomed and included, respected, and listened to. Mymuna has hosted a number of successful virtual sessions since starting the Café in 2020 attracting over 5,000 people and has covered a wide range of topics with the focus of uplifting marginalised voices.

She has a huge passion for community engagement, empowering community voices, but most importantly ensuring that authentic relationships are created with policy makers to influence positive change. Mymuna hopes that this role will enable her to transfer the skills she has gained in community engagement and to build positive meaningful relationships and connections between communities and decision makers.